Microsoft in a statement said “ We can confirm that Bing was inaccessible in China, but service is now restored”. The outage caused concern that the service might have been blocked by the Chinese authorities, in the same way the firewall that blocks Facebook and Twitter. Chinese authorities have also cracked down on Virtual Private…
Skygazers were treated to a rare astronomical spectacle of a “ super blood wolf moon” , when the moon turned a deep shade of red, part of a lunar eclipse makes the surface of the moon appear a reddish hue and won’t be seen again for another 18 years. The red moon was visible for…
A Bangalore based educational (edtech) and online tutoring firm founded in 2011 by Byju Raveendran, an engineer from Azhikode a costal village in Kerala, India’s largest online tutoring startup and recent entrant to the “unicorn club” is looking to expand into international markets with its latest acquisition of US-based Osmo, a Palo Alto, California startup…
In Bristol 170 engineers are designing the world’s most complex next generation AI computer chips the size of the postage stamp, Colossus, which boasts 1216 processors designed for artificial intelligence applications from voice recognition to self-driving cars. Colossus named after computer used by cryptographers at Bletchley Park during the second world war, was top…
WhatsApp owned by Facebook which has more than 201m users in India, making the country its largest market by far has been under growing pressure from India and Australia to find ways to clamp down fake news, inflammatory and incendiary rumours circulating through its systems, especially after a series of lynch mobbings by crowds of…
“Genetics is the most important factor shaping who we are” write Robet Plomin a behavioural geneticist at King’s College London recognised globally for his research into the genetics of intelligence. “ It explains more of the psychological differences between us thane everything else put together, the most important environmental factors, such as our families and…
Daniel Kaye, 30, from Egham in Surrey, a British hacker was living in Cyprus when he was hired by an employee at Orange Liberia, Liberian Telecoms company Cellcom for $10, 000 a month to carry out cyber-attacks on its Lonestar, according to National Crime Agency. Daniel Kaye remains at the heart of a…
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is working on a fingerprint authentication feature to protect its users’ chats from being seen by others. “After working to implement Face ID and Touch ID features on iOS, WhatsApp has finally started to work on the authentication feature on Android, using your fingerprint, the feature will be available within the app…
In Zuboff ‘s view Google’s original aim of making all the world’s information accessible mutated into a ruthless domineering to make money by exploiting and modifying human behaviour, by serving up ads to users just when they are most susceptible to persuasion and generating wants they did not know they had. Google is following a…
WhatsApp has streamlined its new payments function via the messaging app service to become the quickest way to take orders from small business customers and is the easiest way to take their payments in India. Since May 2018, over 1 million Indians have been testing a new payments function in the messaging app, which is…